什么是Liferay

Liferay employs a specialized theming system, which allows you to change the look
and feel of the user interfaces. As a developer, by using the right tools to create and
manipulate themes with Liferay Portal, you can get your site to look any way you
want it to. However, the Liferay theming system can be diffiult to get started with.
This practical guide provides you with a well organized manual for working
with Liferay.
Liferay User Interface Developmentis a pioneer in explaining Liferay's powerful
theming system by leading you through examples to get you to create your own
themes as quickly as possible. It focuses on how portal pages are created and styled
and also discusses some simple confiuration and customization to change the
look and feel of a portal page. Its explicit instructions are accompanied by plenty of
source code. With the open source nature of Liferay, you will fid a user-friendly
environment to design themes with the latest user interface technologies.
Liferay User Interface Developmentunlocks the potential of using Liferay as a
framework to develop a rich user interface.
The book starts off with how you should go about structuring a Liferay Portal web
page. It identifis the components of a portal page: theme, layout, and portlets. This
hands-on tutorial explains themes, portlets, and Alloy UI, which is the latest output
from the Alloy Project of Liferay, in an easy-to-understand way. It covers all aspects
of a theme from its inception and rendering through its consumption by an end user,
with in-depth discussion.
You will clearly understand themes, layouts, and the
Alloy API. Most importantly you will obtain the skills to write a theme and
layout templates, apply them to a portal, and also control the portlet UI through

different mechanisms.

This clear, concise, and practical tutorial will ensure that you have developed
skills to become a competent Liferay themer. The detailed text is accompanied with
source code that allows you to play with the examples, update the code, and add
custom features.
A practical guide to customizing the look and feel of Liferay-based portal applications